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Privacy complaints received by tech giants’ favorite EU watchdog up more than 2x since GDPR

sudshr47 February 28, 2019

A report by the lead data watchdog for a large number of tech giants operating in Europe shows a significant increase in privacy complaints and data breach notifications since the region’s updated privacy framework came into force last May. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)’s annual report, published today, covers the period May 25, aka […]

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Europe issues a deadline for US’ Privacy Shield compliance

sudshr47 December 19, 2018

The European Commission has finally given the U.S. a deadline related to the much criticized data transfer mechanism known as the EU-US Privacy Shield . But it’s only asking for the U.S. to nominate a permanent ombudsperson — to handle any EU citizens’ complaints — by February 28, 2019. If a permanent ombudsperson is not […]

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EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies

sudshr47 July 5, 2018

The European Parliament has been making its presence felt today. As well as reopening democratic debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal by voting against it being fast-tracked, MEPs have adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the EU-US Privacy Shield. The parliamentarians’ view is that the data transfer mechanism does not provide […]

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Facebook gives US lawmakers the names of 52 firms it gave deep data access to

sudshr47 July 2, 2018

In a major Friday night data dump, Facebook handed Congress a ~750-page document with responses to the 2,000 or so questions it received from US lawmakers sitting on two committees in the Senate and House back in April. The document (which condensed into a tellingly apt essence — “people data… Facebook information” — above, when […]

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Brexit data transfer gaps a risk for UK startups, MPs told

sudshr47 May 9, 2018 Startups

The uncertainty facing digital businesses as a result of Brexit was front and center during a committee session in the UK parliament today, with experts including the UK’s information commissioner responding to MPs’ questions about how and even whether data will continue to flow between the UK and the European Union once the country has […]

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Australia latest to open probe into Facebook data scandal

sudshr47 April 5, 2018

Australia’s privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal. Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in 2014 — saying as many as 87 million Facebook users could have had their data “improperly […]